Opinion of Advocate General Jacobs delivered on 23 March 1994

1 Original language: English.

2 OJ 1993 L 55, p. 54.

3 Sec Case 40/85 Bclļium v Commission [1986] ECR 2321, paragraph 13 of the judgment.

4 See Case C-142/87 Belgium v Commission [1990] ECR I-959, paragraph 29 of the judgment.

5 The meaning of this expression is not entirely clear; nor does it emerge from the documents annexed to Spain's application.

6 Case 323/82 Intermills v Commission [1984] ECR 3809, paragraph 39 of the judgment.

7 See Case C-142/87, cited above in note 3, paragraphs 58 to 63 of the judgment.

8 Case C-301/87 France v Commission [1990] ECR I-307.

9 Ibid., paragraph 11 of the judgment.

10 See my Opinion in Boussac (cited above in note 7), paragraph 42.